Stan Kann and Ralph Wolf

Stan Kann

Stan Kann is an American entertainment icon! Literally hundreds of
appearances with Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin made him a TV
personality, but to organ buffs he is the Little King of the console! For 22
years, he entertained audiences at the magnificent St. Louis Fox Theater 4/36
Wurlitzer. For a number of years, he raced between the theatre and Ruggeri's,
featuring Stan and the 3/11 Wurlitzer on the NBC network. Stan is that rare
musician who makes his living as a theatre organist. His weekly playing
schedule includes weekends at L.A.'s only Silent Movie theatre accompanying
films, Wednesday evening concerts on the Founder's Church Wurlitzer, and very
theatrical Sunday mornings at the Hollywood Church of Religious Science. Stan
continues to book concert engagements as his schedule permits. In case you're
wondering, his vacuum cleaner collection remains intact, occupying an entire
room in his lively Hancock Park home!

The 22 years as the house organist at the Fox Theater in St. Louis
singles out Stan Kann as the longest running entertainment musician/organist in
North America. Stan started playing on the "window sill" at the age of four
while listening to the radio and was immediately encouraged by his parents at
the piano and was at the organ console by age fourteen. While majoring in organ
at Washinton University in St. Louis, Stan dicovered the entertaiment side of
the organ. It was during this time that Stan was invloved in the first
restaurant with a pipe organ where he nationally broadcast every Saturday night
on the NBC Radio Network.

It was Phillis diller who discovered Stan Kann as a comedic
collector vacuum cleaners as well as as an organist. Because of his 77 guest
appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, 89 shows with Mike Douglas
and over 30 with Merv Griffin, Stan Kann is probably the most famous (living)
theater organist in the country today. Mr. Kann is equally at home as a concert
artist on the the theater organ as well as an an accompanist to silent
movies.

Ralph Wolf

Ralph Wolf was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Several years (and
several thousand miles later) Ralph found his way to the entertainment capital
of the world, HOLLYWOOD! It was there that he formed a musical trio called the
Bachelors, which performed across the U.S. and Canada, made musical shorts for
Universal, and recorded for the MGM label and Standard Transcription Library.
After several years the trio disbanded, and Ralph went on to collaborate with
many fabulous performers including Margaret Whiting, Mel Torme, Helen
O'Connell, Connie Haines, Terri Moore, the late Marilyn Maxwell, and the
sensational HI-LO's. He was the rehearsal pianist for Disney's original Mickey
Mouse Club! For ten years Ralph was Product Specialist, concert artist and
supervisor of music education for the Thomas Organ company. He has recorded
several albums on piano and electronic organ, as well as a fondly remembered
theatre organ album on the "Old Town Music Hall" Mighty Wurlitzer. Ralph
resides in Sherman Oaks, California, with his frisky poodle named
"Tassie."